Submitted by P T Withington (not verified) on Wed, 05/03/2006 - 15:23.
Inner functions should only need to capture their free references. Are you just saying that most Javascript VM's are too simplistic, so they capture the entire scope chain? Bleah.
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Inner functions should only need to capture their free references. Are you just saying that most Javascript VM's are too simplistic, so they capture the entire scope chain? Bleah.